purpose: to report the clinical, confocal scan, and histopathologic features of bilateral nocardia keratitis following photorefractive keratectomy (prk). case report: a 23-year-old girl underwent simultaneous bilateral prk for myopia. on the third postoperative day, dense central infiltrates mainly involving the anterior stroma were noticed in both eyes. clinical and confocal scan features were...

introduction the glandular odontogenic cyst (goc) is a rare, locally aggressive and potentially recurrent cyst of jaws which lead in diagnostic and therapeutic challenges. since 1992, 111 cases of goc have been reported, with 0.2% incidence among odontogenic cysts. conclusions glandular odontogenic cyst is an uncommon and relatively aggressive cyst with a high recurrence rate. clinical and radi...

A 52-year-old woman with tracheal lesions underwent tracheal resection and carina reconstruction directly because histopathologic diagnosis was not obtained before surgery. Postoperative pathological analysis confirmed a diagnosis of mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue (MALT) lymphoma. Subsequently, she suffered serious complications of tracheal stenosis, bronchial stenosis, and tracheoesophageal...

purpose: to report the clinical, histopathologic, microbiologic and confocal microscopic features of candida keratitis after deep anterior lamellar keratoplasty (dalk). patients and findings: the first patient presented with asymptomatic white to cream-colored interface deposits two months after dalk. confocal scan disclosed clusters of hyper-reflective fine granular deposits in the interface w...

retinoblastoma is the most common primary intraocular malignancy in childhood. enucleation remains the treatment of choice in many children because the eye can not be salvaged with any other treatment modality. in some cases after enucleation etiologies other than retinoblastoma are detected in histopathologic review (pseudoretinoblastomas). this study aims to evaluate the prevalence and etiolo...

purpose: to report the clinical, paraclinical and histopathologic features of eyelid mass lesions in a patient with tuberous sclerosis. case report: a 14 year old boy with a slowly progressive right upper lid mass and history of seizures, mental retardation and multiple skin lesions on the face and body was referred to labbafinejad medical center. cortical tubers and subepandimal nodules were r...

background & objectives:  accurate differentiation of eczema and psoriasis can be difficult, especially in areas of palm and sole. this study was designed to evaluate histopathological features and identify statistically significant parameters in distinguishing palmoplantar psoriasis from eczema of these regions in patients referring to razi skin hospital, tehran, iran. methods: in a cross-...